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Webster 1913 Edition
Glue
Glue
(glū)
, Noun.
A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
Bee glue
. See under
– Bee
. Fish glue
, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass.
– Glue plant
(Bot.)
, a fucoid seaweed (
– Gloiopeltis tenax
). Liquid glue
, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid or alcohol.
– Marine glue
, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.
Glue
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glued
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gluing
.] To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
This cold, congealed blood
That
That
glues
my lips, and will not let me speak. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Glue
GLUE
,Noun.
glu.
Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances. It is made of the skins, parings, &c. of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly.
GLUE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To unite; to hold together.[This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases,to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]
Definition 2024
glue
glue
English
Noun
glue (plural glues)
- A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
- (obsolete) Birdlime.
Derived terms
Terms derived from glue
Translations
sticky adhesive substance
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birdlime — see birdlime
Verb
glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or glueing, simple past and past participle glued)
- (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
- 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:
- […] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
- (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.
Derived terms
Translations
join with glue
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